The Canal Page #2

Synopsis: Film archivist David (Rupert Evans) has been having a rough time lately, as he suspects that his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) has been cheating on him with Alex (Carl Shaaban), one of her work clients. This stress is compounded when David's work partner Claire (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) gives him a reel of to-be-archived footage that shows that his house was the setting for a brutal murder in 1902. Becoming progressively more unsettled and unhinged, David begins to believe that a spectral presence is in his house and ends up following his wife to a nearby canal, where he discovers that she is indeed having an affair with Alex. When Alice goes missing shortly afterwards, David contacts the police- only to become the prime suspect in her disappearance. As the police grow more convinced that David has murdered his wife, he struggles to find proof of his growing suspicion that something otherworldly was instead responsible.
Director(s): Ivan Kavanagh
Production: The Orchard
  3 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
NOT RATED
Year:
2014
92 min
Website
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I'm sorry.

Adam and me were the only ones left.

Adam said a gowilla could beat a

winosaurus in a fight, is that true?

No.

The master wants you.

The master wants you.

David...

please.. don't..

I don't want to...

David...

please.. don't..

I don't want to die

Hi, it's Alice here,

sorry I missed your call.

If you want to leave your name and number I'll

get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks.

Detective McNamara.

So, when did you last see her?

Em.. yesterday morning.

We said good bye, I took Billy,

my son, to school.

And has she stayed out all night before?

No.

No, never.

She said she was working late last night,

but I asked a work colleague of hers

and she said Alice left around about five.

Did you have an argument?

No.

You sure?

Yeah.

You been in touch with her

family and friends?

Yes.

And they've heard nothing from her?

No.

Ok..

Hair colour?

Some of them are a little old.

That's all I could find.

Dad..

when will mummy be coming back?

I told you... she'll be home soon.

Don't worry.

Pretty..

Hey.

Hiya.

Is there any news?

How's Billy?

Yeah, he's fine.

I put him to bed about an hour ago.

He wanted to sleep in your room.

Do you know there's black

stuff on your hands.

They took my fingerprints to eliminate me.

In case there's an investigation.

Em.. I put Billy to bed about an hour ago.

He wanted to sleep in your room.

He's fine. All day. We get on really well!

He's a great kid, I really like him.

I get to know everything about dinosaurs!

Yeah!

I'd better go.

Yeah.

Thanks.

Yeah.

See you in the morning.

Billy... Billy! What are you looking at?

Come here...

I had a dream about Mammy.

I miss her.

Man came forward yesterday

claiming to be your wife's lover.

Says he was with her the

night she disappeared.

They've been seeing each other

for about a year.

You know anything about that?

No.

Well, according to him,

she was planning to leave you.

That's impossible.

She loves me.

She has a lover, David.

He's lying!

Well,

several of her friends have backed him up.

By all accounts, she was in love

with the bloke, and he with her.

Sorry.

F***ing acid reflux.

Total f***ing pain in the arse.

Want one of these?

No.

I've got a very weak stomach, David.

You didn't kill her, did you?

You've no right to be

asking me these things.

I love, I love my wife.

I'd never, I'd never do

anything to hurt her.

Never.

Are you asking her lover these questions,

are you?

Yeah.

You asking him if he killed her?

Yeah.

He's got an alibi.

His boss called just as she

was leaving his house,

they both heard her insist

on going home by herself

and then stayed on the phone for over

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Ivan Kavanagh

Ivan Kavanagh is an Irish filmmaker who has written, directed and edited five features and ten short films. His second feature film "The Solution" toured the festival circuit worldwide and won Best Drama at the Portobello Film Festival 2007 in London. The Durban International Film Festival in South Africa called it “a gritty masterpiece”. Ivan's third feature Tin Can Man won Boundary Breaking Best Feature at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2007 and Best Actor for Patrick O'Donnell. It also won Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Actor for Michael Parle and Best Foreign Director at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2008 and Best Cinematography at the Strasbourg International Film Festival 2008. His 2009 feature film The Fading Light produced by Park Films and financed by the Irish Film Board, recently won Best Irish Film and Best Male Actor for Patrick O'Donnell at the Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010. Amongst many other festivals, it also played in the World Cinema section of the prestigious Pusan International Film Festival 2010, South Korea and at the Titanic Film Festival 2011, Hungary. more…

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